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FLORISTS FORM.

No. 274,006. Patented Mar.13,1883.

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WITNESSES I N PETERS. mummy. "PM all UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GHARLES A. KUEHN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FLORISTS FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,006, dated March 1a, 1883.

Application filed December 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. KUEHN,a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missourighave invented a new and useful Florists Form, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to articles manufactured of wire, and especially to forms or baskets such as are used for floral designs; and

it consists in certain improvements in the conview of a form embodying my improvement.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional View. of the latter, and Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the clamps or braces detached.

The same letters refer to the same parts in all the figures.

Heretofor'e, as will be seen by reference to Fig. 1 ot' the drawings, florists forms have been constructed mainly of outline-wires A A, connected by clamps or braces B B, extended under the lower outline-wire, and connected to the same by bindings U, of fine wire, and looped or hooked over the upper outline-Wire, as shown. By this construction the ends or points D of the binding-wires have been left exposed, making it impossible to cover the form neatly with tin-foil, as is usually done. Besides, the exposed points will scratch the hands of those handling the device. and mar the polished surfaces of tables, &c., upon which it may be placed.

To avoid these objections it is my purpose to'dispense entirely with the wire bindings,

which I accomplish by constructing the clamps when finished and covered.

1 claim as my invention 1. In florists forms, the combination, with the outline-wires, of braces or clamps provided at their angles with loops clinched over said outline-wires, as set forth.

'2. In florists forms, the herein-described clamps or braces, constructed with eyes at their ends and loops at their angles, adapted to beclinched over the outline-wires, as set forth.

3. As an improvementin florists forms, the

combination, with the outline-wires, OfClfllllPS or braces having eyesat their ends and loops at their angles, clinched over said outlinewires, and having their central portions raised between the sides of the lower outline-wire, as set forth. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES ALBERT KUEHN.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL WILLIAM ORoMMIE, E. W. HILL. 

